
Originally Posted by
waffles
Hell yeah. I stopped showing anything I bring to vendors. I'll be there with something at a fair used market price (lets say a glock 19 at $400).
"Can I see that?"
"Sure, if you'll pay $400 for it, I'm selling it at a fair price, but not enough for you to make much profit on it"
"yeah that's fine, let me check it out. Hmmm, my gun price bible (because I'm still using a several year old paperback in 2018) says I can't do that. would you take $200 for it?"
Every. Fucking. Time. I try not to be rude as I'd like to maintain the relationships, but man so many of these guys have the same stuff on the table for years and I totally understand why. In the end I still spend my $10 so I'm the sucker, but every now and then I find something really cool.